Posted in: NovemberNovember is Lung Cancer Awareness Month

Here are 10 quick facts from Total Well-Being about smoking, lung cancer, and disease prevention:

1. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States among every ethnic group.
2. Lung cancer kills an average of 437 people a day.
3. Lung cancer will kill more people than breast, prostate, colon, liver, kidney, and melanoma cancers combined.
4. Only 16% of lung cancers are diagnosed at its earliest, most curable stage.
5. Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States.
6. Each year, smoking accounts for an estimated 443,000 premature deaths, including 38,000 deaths among nonsmokers as a result of secondhand smoke.
7. The Great American Smokeout was inaugurated in 1976 to inspire and encourage smokers to quit for one day.
8. The Great American Smokeout is Thursday, November 19, 2009.
9. Smoke-free workplace laws and other tobacco-control legislation help protect Americans from secondhand smoke and encourage smokers to quit.
10. Assisting a client in implementing a smoke-free workplace in 2009 was one of Total Well-Being’s greatest success stories.� Read the case study.

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